Illuminated display



NOV. 8, KQEBLE I ILLUMINATED DISPLAY Filed July 15, 1931 0 12 14 f 4 o f 14 ,6 6

IN VEN TOR.

AZBEAT KOEBLE.

ATTORNEYS.

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UNETE teeter ALBERT KOEIBLE, or rnvrnoron, NEW anns'tztz, ss ivqaroj m w mp s ra ne s PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPH coreranv, or; nnoorzizvn, NEWYORK, 1A; coaroan'rr'on OF OHIO ittunrnnrnnijisrinv Application filed July 15, 1931. Serial No.v550,962.

This invention relates to improvements in illuminated displays and has more particular relation to improvements in such displays as are intended to be suspended from a support p lli a wall such as a picture moulding or the One of the several objects of the invention is to provide an illuminated display of an improved construction which may be shipped in a flat condition and instantly set up in condition for use without gluing, fastening or the like, and hang suspended when so set up in position on the wall to be clearly visible from all points in a room.

Another object is to so construct the illuminated display that it will hang in an elevated position slightly inclineddownward to effect yisibility from all points below the hanging evel.

Another object of the invention is to provide a knock-down display of the'illuminated type in which the light can be located in a collapsible box at the back of the display proper; this box having hinged back and sides and a scored top all in one piece and capable of being forced down fiat on the display or extended to form a box for the light.

The invention also has other objects, all of which will be hereinafter more particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification,

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a display embodying my invention taken from the rear,

Figure 2 represents a frontelevation of the same.

Figure 3 represents a detail top elevation of the fiat blank from which the light box is constructed,

Figure 4 represents a vertical section of the display hung against the wall, and

Figure 5 represents a back view of the display collapsed.

Described in general terms the invention includes a flat front display panel suitably cut out for the passage'of light at certain points and having a suitable advertisementfigure, reading matter or the like printed or lithographed thereon.

Theap anelaisiintended be suspended in an inclinedpos'ition facing diagonally down- Ward from-the picture or; WELllIIlOllldlIlg.

, The light box, which forms the back of the deviceis constructed in a wedge shape with theggre'atest depthat the top so that when the rear Wall ofthis boXis-fiat against the wall, the frontdisplay panel will assume an inclined po'sition facing-downward so that it is visibleclearly from all points in a room below 'the level ofthe display.

f-Described in detailthe invention provides first thefrontornamental panel 1 of lieavy cardboard which is formed'with suitable advertising matter 2-in the form of a cutout, through whichfthe light may'shine, or a picture on transparent paper over a cut out portion throughrwhich light from thelight box -3' may shine.

This lightbox is formed from a single 7 blank and provides an inclined back 4, two hinged sides 5 which are scored as at 66 where they join the back, a bottom 7 also scored as at 8 where it joins the back and a top 9 scored as at 10 along its length and at the back as at 12. 1

This top 9 is formed with an attaching flap 7 back of the light box is placed flat against the wall, the front panel will be held in an in clined position so that it may be seen from all points in the room.

The top 9 is also formed at the pointof the scoring 12 -with attaching tabs 1313 stamped from the material of the back 4. These tabs are nailed to the top of the picture moulding on the wall to secure the display in position against the wall.

Suitable ventilating or heat exits 14 are formed in the sides and top. The top is also formed with a light opening 15 just the size of a lamp socket so that the bulb may be screwed up through the opening into the socket and thus held in position.

' l eu When the box 8 is extended for use it is held in this extended position by the sides which are forced into position and hold the back away from the front panel.

When the device is to be collapsed, the sides are pulled outward at their free edges, the top pulled up along the scoring 10 as shown in Figure 5 so that the two halves of the top lie vertically sideby side and the back 15 pushed close to the front panel, the scoringS and 12 allowing this movement. The whole display is thus flattened out against the back of the front panel and may be readily shippad or mailed. I 7

' What I claim is: V

, In an illuminated display, the combin'a tion with a display panel having a transpar ent portion, of a collapsible light box con= structed from a single piece of material comprising sides having free edges, a back flexibly connected to said sides, a top, and a bot tom of less width than the width of said top,

said top and bottom; being flexibly connected to the back and at their forward edges being permanently and flexibly connectedto said display panel, said'top being scored midway in a plane paralleling said display panel so.

as to fold upon itself permitting the collapsible light box tobe folded fiat against said 39; display panel, said top being formed with rearwardly projecting ears for attachment to a wall moulding.

In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature;

' ALBERT KOEBLE, 

